Underground German radio outfit Temple of Despair has recently featured a track from Shufflebrain on the program Unknown Pleasures. Check it out!
Shufflebrain on the radio
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Furniture fun
Sorry that I’ve been away from this thing for a while. I’ve been spending a fair amount of time fixing up the bachelor pad, most of which seems to be from assembling furniture. I’ve put together a leather office chair and two sets of media shelving. At one point, the experience reminded me of some fond childhood memories: putting together brightly colored plastic blocks while trying to make sense of the cryptic, wordless instructions in an attempt to make the pile of parts before me look like thing on the box. I came up with this slogan shortly afterwards:
Furniture: Lego for grownups.
Caustic Reverie on youtube
First up is a short art film called Lonesome / Sám that features music from Rust Shore.
Turt by Hermitwalker uses a section of Fissure in its soundtrack.
Giant Squid II: Electric Shamu
Jackie Perez Gratz and Aaron Gregory of the popular whalecore ensemble Giant Squid were kind enough to drop by the station this afternoon to do some press while they were in the Keys on vacation. 
I got to do phone interviews with them both back in March, so it was a treat to have them at the station in person.
Scale the Summit interview up
My interview with the four musicians of Scale the Summit is now up in the interview archive.
RIP Les Paul
The man should be remembered for a whole lot more than the namesake guitar that the Guitar Hero game controller is modelled after. All fans of recorded music owe a debt to his ingenuity. Reading news stories on his life and accomplishments, I’ve been inspired by the lifelong genius of this wonderful musician and inventor.
Bandcamp
I’ve set up a Bandcamp account for Caustic Reverie with three songs worth of albums. If there’s a good reaction, I’ll upload the rest of my material. Songs are available for free download in various formats, and there’s even a “buy” link if you’re feeling particularly altruistic.
http://causticreverie.bandcamp.com/
Mailbag part 2 – The Octomom
Mailbag – Part 1
On fretless guitars
Having messed with my fretless Intrepid for a few weeks now, I can see some of the instrument’s strengths and weaknesses. I love the feel of a neck without frets and the wiggle-room it provides if I’m not exactly playing the note that I intended. Intonation is the big tradeoff. For playing power chords and leads, this thing is awesome, but trying to get chords in tune when my fingers don’t easily fit in the same “fret” is quite the hassle.
I’m working on some new stuff with the fretless and one of the tracks is the heaviest thing I’ve ever committed to tape. Aesthetically this might be closer to Shufflebrain but the writing and production methods are pure Caustic Reverie, so I think that’s how I will release it. The working title is Interference Patterns.